Sci-Fi Entertainment Does More Than You Think It Does

Sci-fi is a rather strange entertainment vehicle; it teleports you to a fantasy world, but never really transgresses defined boundaries. When films or TV shows in this specific genre are developed, the only intent is to make them appeal to masses, and cash on their peculiarity. The creatives behind such entertainment rarely have ever anything to do with science. They are, in its purest sense, thinkers who envision the unthinkable and pen it down into their work. Back in the 2nd Century, a writer from Ancient Rome introduced the concept of Moon Trek in his play. It wasn’t obviously a possible voyage to undertake back then. Rather the notion surfaced to mock the advancement of transport facilities. In a series of shocking developments, the stimulus for mockery in the past is now the reality of today.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek stated. “For me, science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.”

The influence does not fall short of examples. Star Trek’s communication tools and the video wristwatches of today have remarkably strikingly similar features. The Knight Rider devised the concept of a self-driving car through its KITT, and it is no more just an idea, but a tangible reality. Space Odyssey and Blade Runner predicted the delinquent behavior for some robots. Now scientists are contemplating as of how to eradicate robot dysfunction and get them to perform labor-intensive tasks with complete efficiency.

Reshaping Scientific Research

Researchers put Sci-Fi to use for their theoretical designs. If something is already on their minds, and they see the like portrayal of their idea virtually, it becomes easier to create what they had imagined. Sci-Fi entertainment increasingly showcases unreal human and machine interaction. They may just shape minimal technical devices to have large communicative value. Or, they may just relinquish the devices we use today into less complicated multipurpose gadgets that allow extensive digital work on a seemingly physical scale. The Sci-Fi tier doesn’t just deal with labyrinthine contraptions and weaponry. They also give us the kookiest ideas on what a living thing can look like. The bi-headed aliens, varied-to-become-wilder animals, menacing dinosaurs, endless arrays of parasites, and mutated humans, enable scientists to understand better the human body. This spectacle of illusion modifications and variations have fueled the research of some researchers, giving their dreams life.

Life Out of the World?

Perhaps the greatest single influence of Sci-Fi entertainment is contemplation of extra-terrestrial residence. What keeps us so connected to the solar system’s third planet? Even when movies show that all the other ones can be just as convenient houses? Though not a Sci-Fi, The Handmaid’s tale has carefully presented a ruinous tomorrow that the pollution today will render inhabitable. When Sci-Fis take civilizations out of space, they briefly comment on the social changes that will arise as a consequence to the ever-increasing technical innovations. And when these abstract concepts are aligned together, they comment vaguely on the scope of technical developments. Writers’ fictitious pageant of a utopian stellar society may present scientists with new challenges in planetary habitation that they had not earlier conceived.

Sci-fi Educates Too

Sci-Fis can also be more educational than what one can think of. Multiple researches including one at the Valencia University in Spain have established that Sci-Fis draw students towards science magnetically. They kindle a sense of natural curiosity, revising the idea that what is mundane is not everything.

While Sci-Fi may just be a foot in the door to greater discoveries, it will eventually swing the door wide open to a world of new ideas. To sum it all up, Sci-Fi enlightens how the impacts of engineering and science have turned probabilities into possibilities.

Syed Fahadullah Hussaini is Dankanator’s TV critic and reporter. Fahad has written for platforms including Parhlo, Wonderful Engineering and Mangobaaz. Fahad’s work has also appeared on Dawn’s Young World, and on several Paparazzi issues.

Fahad views TV as a resource rather than a medium. Laden richly with an extensive medley of ideas, cultures, facts, and fables. The writer taps on TV’s new and returning presentations, and channels out every bit of news related to them, along with objectively (and subjectively) analyzing their substance.

Fahad is currently working on a short-stories collection, ‘Seven Colors Of Life’, which shall soon be available on his blog.